3. 2. Business Statement and Announcement

Part of the debate – in the Senedd at 2:20 pm on 27 June 2017.

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Photo of Neil McEvoy Neil McEvoy Plaid Cymru 2:20, 27 June 2017

I want to raise the issue of Cardiff Aviation, based in the Vale of Glamorgan. It’s another company that has received millions of pounds from the Welsh Government, promising to bring thousands of jobs to south Wales. It now seems that only a third of those jobs were created, and I had to bring to light that Cardiff Aviation have failed to pay any rent for a number of years. It now emerges that your Government has written off the £1.5 million, which you’ll never get back. It’s also emerged that employees have gone unpaid for months, and your Government is now distancing itself from the company. When the poorest people in Wales are unable to pay their rent because of the bedroom tax, Labour councils throw those people out on the street. Why have you let millionaire owners of Cardiff Aviation get away with paying nothing in rent and writing the debt off, and why are you distancing yourselves from this company when you should be demanding that the hard workers at Cardiff Aviation get the wages that they have worked for?